chore: Drop Python 3.9 support, test on 3.14

[build wheels]

Author: effigies

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         # We test NumPy dev on 3.11
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', '3.14']
         requires: ['requirements.txt']
         include:
-          - python-version: '3.8'
+          - python-version: '3.10'
             requires: 'min-requirements.txt'
 
     steps:

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ requires = [
   "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2",
   "cython",
   # Wheels need to be built with NumPy 2.0 to be compatible with 2.0 and 1.x
-  "numpy>=2.0.0rc1,<3; python_version > '3.8'",
-  # NEP29-minimum as of Aug 17, 2023 (1.25 doesn't support 3.8)
-  "numpy==1.22; python_version == '3.8'",
+  "numpy>=2",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
@@ -16,7 +14,7 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "Nitime: timeseries analysis for neuroscience data"
 readme = "README.rst"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 authors = [
     { name = "Nitime developers", email = "[email protected]" },
 ]